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soum
soum

Reputation: 1159

JSON is losing formatting in PHP

I have a url which returns a formatted JSON. The problem is when I am echoing the $json, the json is losing its formatting. How would I avoid that

I am doing this 

$query_string_full = http://this_is_a_dummyString.htm?key=123&ID=abc123;

$json = file_get_contents($query_string_full);
$obj = json_decode(stripslashes($json));

echo $obj;

Here is the output http://soumghosh.com/otherProjects/phpDataOperation/eventcCalendar/ajax.php

I found couple of similar problems of this nature but unfortunately none of them really worked. One them is using the stripslashes. Maybe I am not using it correctly?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 72

Answers (1)

Travesty3
Travesty3

Reputation: 14479

What you're echoing should be an object or an array, since that's what json_decode() would return.

Try this:

$query_string_full = http://this_is_a_dummyString.htm?key=123&ID=abc123;

$json = file_get_contents($query_string_full);
$obj = json_decode($json);
echo '<pre>'. json_encode($obj, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT) .'</pre>';

Example

Upvotes: 1

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